Gains in London have sent the FTSE 100 index up marginally by about 9 points to 4,807 this morning.
Despite a devastating tidal wave sparked by an undersea earthquake now feared to have killed at least 70,000 in South and Southeast Asia, market watchers are still feeling prosperous. Rio Tinto is up 26p to 1,520p, and Anglo American is up 9p to 1,231p on forecasts iron ore and other metals comodities prices could rise further in the coming year. BT is down 1.75p to 203p after its shares went ex-dividend. Outside the biggest stocks, Jarvis is up nearly a quarter, or 4.25p to 22.25p after rumours it may find a suitor after withdrawing from the business of providing engineering servi...
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